I'll have to start moderating my generally blase attitude to New Jersey. (no disrespect to Garden Staters intended)

I'm glad you posted this, because I'd surely never have gotten to Excitable Andy's website to see it.

Sweet - now the bathhouses can open back up! Let's break these chaings of love!

And Ace, you think this is the real deal because of your leading edge knowledge of biomedical research?

Damn..I knew this was a comprehensive site, but who knew you could go from Kim Richards videography to the intracacies of targeted reverse transciptase in just one or two blog entries???

No wonder you won that damn award....

At last, Ace, you can safely go back to your bisexual ways!

At last, Ace, you can safely go back to your bisexual ways!

Never in a gay way, though. Never in a gay way.

Like a Viking.

And Ace, you think this is the real deal because of your leading edge knowledge of biomedical research?

Hunch + the way they're talking about it + the way they're describing it as actually killing the virus, rather than just retarding or it the like.

Plus... well... I've got my reasons. They're not *good* reasons or what you'd call so-called "medically sound" resons, but I've got them.

So, er, does this have anything to do with the secret you were going to let us in on but, uh, didn't?

Someone,

I meant to respond to your earlier question about that.

I'm still debating about revealing the big secret. It's actually not a big secret; more of a little secret.

I'm torn between wanting to share and wanting to preserve anonymity.

And if I reveal, I sorta want to do it in a well-written post, and I'm having trouble writing it.

As for the blogrolll: I'm waiting for web-diva to finish fixing my site. Honestly, I can't do anything right now, as I don't know where things go.

But no, I don't have AIDS or anything.

Nor have I cured AIDS.

I can see Andrew Sullivan celebrating.

Yeah, bareback is back! The bath-houses and orgies are a GO! Lucious young boys and cruising chickenhawks.

Until we have enough unsafe sex for AIDs IV to arise.
Then we can demand the government devote health resources away from cancer and diabetes again to get the next Cure!!

Sounds too good to be true.

Crap! Now the Republicans will have to come up with a new biological warfare agent to oppress Africa and San Francisco. No rest for the wicked, I suppose.

Seriously, though, I hope this pans out. AIDS is no way to go.

Wait, Johnson and Johnson? Isn't that an EVIL drug company? Surely this story is a farce!

"Until we have enough unsafe sex for AIDs IV to arise. Then we can demand the government devote health resources away from cancer and diabetes again to get the next Cure!!"

You'd have a case if things were so hermetic. But cell biology is all one thing, for starters. And what's been learned from the study of HIV is valuable for the control of viruses generally and retroviruses in particular. It's not as if HIV is the only virus with the good sense to write itself directly into the DNA.

The key will be how quickly - or not - resistant mutations of the virus can develop. But like Ace, I find a hopeful tone in this release, one that, if it doesn't signify a cure, will at least signify a major step forward in treatment.

Ace, you're right: they're talking about actually killing the damn virus, instead of the usual "inhibiting" it.

Rutgers?

Good for them. Shows what you can accomplish when you're not distracted by having a football team at your school.

Hmmm. Don't mess with replicating viruses.

We use this cure, and it'll be like when that guy from Hunter opened up his chest and took off that guy from St. Elsewhere's arms with his alien chest-jaws.

Cheers,
DK